Workers haul boxes of sardines or tamban freshly caught from the waters between Northern Mindanao and Visayas, at the fish port in Opol town, Misamis Oriental Oriental on Friday, April 11, 2014.

The BFAR said tamban and other fishes caught in the deep seas are not affected by the red tide that have already killed thousands of bangus and kitong in Northern Mindanao.

MindaNews photo by Froilan Gallardo